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Blind Woman’s Curse dvd review early!

by Chris   ⋅   April 29, 2007   ⋅   Comments [2]

The third film in Nikkatsu/Daiei’s Rising Dragon series of female yakuza films, Blind Woman’s Curse marks quite a departure from the norm. This entry features a new heroine, new enemies, and a new theme: that of a period yakuza/horror hybrid. Meiko Kaji, in her first starring role, plays Akemi Tachibana, who, following the death [...]

DVD REVIEW . Street Trash

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   November 27, 2006   ⋅   Comment now

If you’ve never seen Street Trash before, there’s no better time than now, as Synapse’s DVD release sets a new standard for cult restorations.
Street Trash’s story concerns a mysterious cache of bootleg liquor, labeled “Viper”, found within the basement wall of a lower Manhattan liquor store. Being that the store is a regular stop for [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . Marebito

by Kris   ⋅   April 9, 2006   ⋅   Comments [2]

A friend once jokingly said, “if you expect the worst from the world, you’ll never be disappointed”. Such must be the mantra of paranoid psychopaths like Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto, director of Tetsuo, actor in Ichi the Killer) who wanders through Tokyo with his only friend (a video camera) and a supposed mission: to find others [...]

Cannibal Holocaust guest movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   July 30, 2005   ⋅   Comments [2]

Bestial gorefest? Pirandellian exploitation exposé? Both? The most notorious taster of the outrageously lurid Italian jungle-massacre subgenre, Ruggero Deodato’s purposefully unwatchable opus questions the film image’s validity while debasing it. The moral is didactic (”I wonder who the real cannibals are,” wondered at the New York City skyline), but there are plenty of Chinese boxes [...]

Battle Royale II (aka Batoru Rowaiaru II: Chinkonka) movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 29, 2004   ⋅   Comments [6]

ENDLESS DISPLAYS OF STUPIDITY Every country suffers from sequelitis at some point in time. As with those spurned by occidental production companies, Asian cinema has had its fair run of sequels in the past two decades. Some have topped the originals, some managed to entertain while being vastly inferior, and some have crashed and burned [...]

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed he-said-she-said movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   March 21, 2004   ⋅   Comments [2]

KILLER WEREWOLF MAN IS COMING.. AND HE’S HORNY
HE-SAID: After the major disappointment that was the Dawn of the Dead remake, I felt the need to get some honest to God, 100% pure indie horror back in my system. Lo and behold, the San Francisco Horror fest had exactly what I needed.
Last night was [...]

Beyond Re-Animator dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   December 30, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

REANIMATE YOUR FEET TO THE VIDEO STORE I love the original Re-Animator. Herbert West’s trials as a modern day Dr. Frankenstein never fail to make me laugh. Stuart Gordon took H.P. Lovecraft’s most well known short story, added an intelligent, super-camp splatstick twist, and created one of the penultimate cult classics of the 80’s. Even [...]

Gozu (aka Gokudo Kyofu Dai-Gekijo) he-said-she-said movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   November 9, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

SHE SAID: Wow, incredible. I’m just gonna say right off the bat that if surreal is your dig, you’ll love this movie. If you’ve ever pondered mortality, take a test-run. You’ll hop into anti-hero Minami’s 1965 Mustang convertible (my aunt had one of these bad-boys; they are niiice!) and vroom off to Nagoya to [...]

Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha movie review

by Chris   ⋅   November 7, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

THE NAKED CHICK’S CORPSE HIT THE PAVEMENT LIKE A COLOSTOMY BAG FILLED WITH CHEESE Like Lynch, Miike’s films demand to be watched at least twice. Once for the purely visceral impact, and once to pick up on the symbolism and subtle nuances of the story. But if Lynch is Jazz, Miike is pure rock [...]

Dead or Alive 2: Tobosha movie review

by Chris   ⋅   November 7, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

Dead or Alive 2 is something of a surprise. Of course, following the first film’s ending it would be impossible to make a continuation of the story, so what’s a director to do? Flip everything up. Change tempos. Continue the story once the two souls have been reincarnated. Make a mellower, more reflective, more thought [...]

Doom Generation movie review

by Kris   ⋅   October 21, 2003   ⋅   Comment [1]

HAVE YOU EVER KILLED SOMEONE? Okay, wait a minute, [[REWIND]].. Have you ever been at the local 7-11 or ‘quickie mart’ and hosed down some slushies, nachos, maybe some smokes? The cashier lackadaisically taps the register keys, wishing you were her last customer and is secretly praying to god you don’t have a handgun hidden. [...]

House of 1000 Corpses movie review

by Chris   ⋅   September 9, 2003   ⋅   Comments [2]

I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about this film. It’s hard because House of 1000 Corpses is one hell of an unbalanced film. In places it’s brilliant, ranking among the best in its genre, but for the most part it is a plodding exercise in mediocrity. I absolutely loved the first 5 [...]

Ichi the Killer (aka Koroshiya 1) he-said-she-said movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   August 29, 2003   ⋅   Comments [15]

WHAT’S A HOMICIDAL PSYCHOPATH TO DO?
SHE SAID:
Yakuza boss Anjo has been eviscerated. Entrails are scattered across the floor, ceiling, even the fish tank. A clean-up crew of rejected Yakuza erases every trace, including 300 million yen. But they have seen this all before; they are the ones who orchestrated it +have tidied up previous [...]

Suicide Circle (aka Jisatsu Saakuru) movie review

by Chris   ⋅   July 23, 2003   ⋅   Comments [6]

Note: This was the second review I ever wrote, and was published initially on Film Rotation (FilmRot.com). It was written for a different audience, and stands as somewhat at odds with the rest of the reviews on our site. I warn you that it is not particularly insightful, and is fairly crass. Still, it [...]

Toolbox Murders (1978) dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   January 18, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

I actually never bothered to watch The Toolbox Murders on account it looked retarded, but after hearing that Tobe Hooper had remade the film, along with noticing the occasional site search popping up, and the fact I’m overdue for a review, I decided to pick it up.
Well, I guess sometimes first impressions are more [...]

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